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Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

— Mignon McLaughlin The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)

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Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

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Women are good listeners, but it’s a waste of time telling your troubles to a man unless there’s something specific you want him to do.

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A young woman can live off the folly of men; a man of any age can live off the folly of women.

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When a man comes to love a woman exactly as she had dreamed, she decides he is a weakling.

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Women are never landlocked: they’re always mere minutes away from the briny deep of tears.

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